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The End of the World in Breslau: An Eberhard Mock Investigation
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Author
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Marek Krajewski. Danusia Stok, trans.
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Maclehose Press
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hardcover
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9.5
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ISBN
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9781906694067
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294/2009
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Daedalus Item Code
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22022
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Description
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Breslau in the late 1920s: a victim is discovered bound, gagged, and sealed inside a wall to die; another is found quartered, his fingers severed. One of them was a musician, the other was a locksmith, and each had a calendar page near his body, with the day of the death marked in blood. Enigmatic criminal councilor Eberhard Mock must search for answers in Breslau's underworld, a decadent demi-monde he knows all too well—and one his neglected wife is drawn to for her own reasons. This is the second of Marek Krajewski's wildly successful "Polish noir" thrillers to have been translated into English, following Death in Breslau. "Polish author Marek Krajewski sets readers a knotty challenge in his rich and idiosyncratic Breslau novels. Atmosphere and piquant period detail saturate the pages, and push these books into the upper echelons of literary crime. Krajewski's lacerating narrative, as before, performs the key function of the skillful novelist: providing an entrée into a world far from our own."—Independent (London)
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